A New Branch of Science

AI is such an exciting field. This is the first time that humans get to experiment with what makes intelligence tick. I've long held that philosophy guides science, but now the tools to experiment with intelligence have arrived so it's time to stop talking about it, and start figuring it out!

This paper reminds me of the anatomy of the brain and how it contains different sections for various areas of compute such as sight. Modern chip design seems to mirror this approach with general compute supplemented with asic like dedicated hardware for specific tasks.

Source: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.06344

Infrastructure: Still a Good Investment?

In the past, infrastructure was an investment into the local population. Highways and train stations allowed cities to grow and towns to prosper, and even modern airports do the same thing to many destinations.

But what will ai data centers do? It almost reminds me of Dollar General. Whenever they move into a new area, it pushes out local business and the money that would have stayed within the community gets siphoned out to uninterested aliens.

Will ai prop up local communities, or will it turn into the new manufacturing where the cheapest bid usually wins?

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQoqtn2RquI

Minimum Connections, Maximum AI

I think that the ideas from this video about connections could be a fantastic way to layer knowledge bases for ai. Someone was able to create massive databases for agentic ai without hallucinations by cleverly segmenting which data the ai had access to for each task with knowledge based gates in n8n. A few random or strategically placed pathways into other knowledge bases could massively expand capabilities while keeping the benefits of both intact. High accuracy and low hallucinations with small knowledge bases, and high potential for higher level thinking and agent layering.

I can't wait to try this out!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlon2tvywA